Posts Tagged ‘love’

“God created the world to lavish His affection on it,” says Josh Butler, Pastor of Global Outreach at Imago Dei in Portland, OR. Evil comes from us; sin is a bending of ourselves toward our own selfish nature rather than towards God and our neighbor. “Our world was created to flourish before the face of […]

“I was seventeen when I became a believer…I was kicked out of my home,” recounts Dr. Celestin Musekura, President and Founder of African Leadership And Reconciliation Ministries (ALARM, Inc.). “I began the ministry in 1994…and by 1997 in December, my family was murdered.”

“Love incorporates justice,” says Dr. Nicholas Wolterstorff, Philosopher and Noah Porter Emeritus Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale University. Justice and mercy are intimately linked. To truly love one another and be merciful is to be just with them. “The implication has to be, that doing justice is one form of loving your neighbor.”

“By commanding [us] to love him, he’s actually commanding our own good,” says Ken Wytsma, Author, Founder of The Justice Conference and President of Kilns College. Self-interest and selfishness are two different things. Selfishness serves the self at the expense of others. Self-interest simply cares for the self without necessarily competing with the interest of […]

“I think it has its place, but it’s a very limited place,” says Ed Underwood, Author and Pastor at Church of the Open Door in Southern CA. Accountability groups are very useful in some situations, but only have limited effectiveness in others. People can begin hiding their mistakes or redefining their mistakes so they don’t […]

“His love for the Father and his love for us that drives him as the God/Man is something that brings him to do the unthinkable,” according to Dr. Gerry Breshears, Author and Professor of Theology at Western Seminary. Jesus certainly recognized the suffering and pain that would result from his arrest and crucifixion, and there […]

“He or she who has been forgiven much loves much.” How do we honor people who have hurt us? By remembering that we have hurt others, according to Ken Wytsma, President of Kilns College and Founder of The Justice Conference. “Grace is really about understanding our own shortcomings, the hundred different ways I wound people […]

Can we be consumers even in the way we pray? “I don’t get excited about obligatory prayer,” says Ken Wytsma, President of Kilns College and Founder of The Justice Conference. True sacrificial love is “incredibly difficult to engage and sustain,” and only healthy, authentic prayer can drive us to it.